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Reason
Shoshana Weissmann

Dating Apps Are Horrible. A Colorado Bill Would Make Them Worse.

On Hinge, the basic text prompts where users share information about themselves are an unmitigated hellscape.

"All sex is choke sex when you're being strangled by the invisible hand of capitalism," read one profile I came across. The app offers a surprisingly large number of men who like to do yoga in the nude. A different man holds up a picture of himself with a "world's smallest cock" mug and yet didn't bother to post a picture of the adorable rooster. Things aren't much better once you open a chat: I recently asked a man in his 40s what he liked about Spain and he replied simply, "Chicas."

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